On the Importance of Location Privacy for Users of Location Based Applications
arXiv:1911.01633v11 citations
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This addresses privacy concerns for users of location-based applications, but it is incremental as it confirms existing suspicions with survey data.
The paper investigated whether users care about location privacy when using location-based service apps through a survey, finding that privacy is an influential factor in app selection.
Do people care about their location privacy while using location-based service apps? This paper aims to answer this question and several other hypotheses through a survey, and review the privacy preservation techniques. Our results indicate that privacy is indeed an influential factor in the selection of location-based apps by users.